Saturday, April 26, 2008

Shimmer



















Groaning within groans and moans
Diaphragm lunging in atmosphere
Ear bones on drum deaf to all tone
Living in the high culture of fear.

Mind numbed with the dumb and numb
Digits curling to palms lustily grasping
Luridly coveting for a dusty crumb
Gaping, hoarsely and blithely gasping.

Warlord rumors blood thirsty war
Victory measured in widow barrenness
Murderous rage of the murderous whore
Undertaker logic, death grins -- more is less.

Waning ozone, waning trees, spirits and sprites
While short lived fat cats sated and satiated
Beauty chokes as stale laughter opiates the fight
Blase-lazy, never filled and fully sedated.

Crystaline shimmer hope shimmering
Slivering dark sky in crackling webs
Bullet whole light presence glimmering
Tide rising on a hope that flows, and ebbs.

Eucharistic life, wine, bread, body, blood
Dying, rising, bleeding, breaking needing
From the fresh dew upon a new rose bud
True parable of living swallowing dying.

****Another poem from about 1 year ago.

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